Posted on 2009-12-05
The Minister of Defense, Robert Gates, the first decision to implement the military strategy of President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan, which has been approved to send a unit of Marines, according to private information for CNN, which also learned that the White House approved a proposal to increase the size of the bombing aircraft using drone at the Afghan border with Pakistan.
By contrast, denied that U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in an exclusive interview with CNN, what has been said about Obama has no plans to leave things as they are and as soon as the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and stressed that the army of her country did not exist in Afghanistan if the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and agreed to hand over al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the attacks on New York.
Clinton said Obama announced his desire to withdraw American forces begin withdrawing from Afghanistan as of July 2011 based on "the official transition of power to the Afghan side, based on conditions on developments on the ground."
Clinton said that her country to consider the situation in the various Afghan, the 34 states, is studying the status of each of them independently, and believes that some stable and can be delivered now to the Afghan side, while other states still saw heavy fighting.
The secretary of America that the international community made a mistake in the past when he helped "mujahideen" to expel Soviet forces from Afghanistan, without the later steps towards improving the conditions of the population, saying: "We have turned our backs and left behind a serious and growing presence (the insurgents) in Afghanistan and Pakistan."
Clinton questioned the willingness of the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to respond to a request to resort to dialogue given to him of the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, saying that Mullah Omar, "I do not want to dialogue with Karzai or any other party."
She added: "We must remember that Washington requested the delivery of Mullah Omar al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden after the attacks of 11 September 2001, though he did it as we were in Afghanistan today."
According to Clinton, the White House "seriously consider" the possibility that bin Laden and Mullah Omar was in Pakistan or in the border area with Afghanistan, also expressed "satisfaction" of what is happening in the Gulf States for combating the financing of al Qaeda by independent agencies in those countries.
The "anger Cobra" start Helmand
In parallel Saadi, said the international forces in Afghanistan, the force includes 900 U.S. and British troops and 150 Afghan soldiers opened Friday, a military operation to expel the Taliban from the valley, "Nawzad" in the north of the restive Helmand province.
Process and carry the name of "anger Cobra" have seen so far killed several militants and found large quantities of weapons and explosives, laboratories for the preparation of EFPs the armor.
It is believed that the Helmand province is one of the main strongholds of the Taliban, the largest center for the cultivation of opium in the world today, is a city "Nawzad" in the valley the target process's second-largest city of the province, but now almost empty due to intense fighting witnessed in the past and led to widespread destruction them.
Atlantic sent seven thousand troops
Secretary General of NATO, Andres Rasmason, that the States participating in the alliance decided to send seven thousand additional troops to Afghanistan, with the possibility of providing more troops in the coming period.
The Rasmason that the forces involved will come from 25 countries, and will focus on "the goals of Afghan" include the protection of public facilities and residential areas of Afghanistan, as well as training local security forces to develop their capacity to take control of things.
Despite assurances from President Bush to withdraw troops from Afghanistan will begin in July 2011, but Rasmason stressed that the move of this kind will be under the "specific conditions" in each state of Afghan end, and after the development of local forces for its security capabilities.
Gates signed to increase troops in Afghanistan.
The sources in the U.S. Department of Defense Gates has already signed on Friday the first decision to send additional units to Afghanistan, but officially announced will not be before next Monday.
The decision involves an element of the Marine Corps "Marine" are the vanguard of the additional power that the White House decided to send to Afghanistan, and the 30 thousand soldiers.
It was reported that troops "Marines" to start going to Afghanistan starting this month, while the army would not send additional units by March next year.
Increased air drones
At the level of air force unmanned aircraft, the White House agreed to increase patrols and operations conducted by these aircraft, after a request made in this regard and the Central Intelligence Agency CIA, as confirmed by the U.S. administration sources told CNN.
The sources said that the raids: "very important in operations to hit terrorist targets," sniffing at the reports indicating that such strikes were responsible for killing dozens of civilians by saying that the victims were unarmed were only "small percentage" among the dead.
The months that followed Obama takes office in 2009 saw 40 strike aircraft drone in the Pakistani border regions of Afghanistan, a significant increase compared to 2008, which saw the implementation of the 30 air under the administration of former President George Bush.
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